2020 Democratic presidential primary

I've warmed up to Buttigieg.

MA's Emerson poll, which covers April 4-7, has Sanders leading at 26%, Biden at 23%, and Warren at 14% (Buttigieg 11%).

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ma/massachusetts_democratic_presidential_primary-6786.html

RCP average still has Biden first, followed by Sanders, with Harris and O'Rourke neck and neck

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html

This is all definitely changing all the time, of course. I just enjoy tracking these things.

"I've warmed up to Buttigieg."

Worst Belle & Sebastian Single

this quote is interesting because I think it shows Mayor Pete has the same hangup Obama did where he thinks he's the left-most person in the room and so he doesn't ever actually read or pay attention to anyone on the actual left. The psychoanalytical answer for both is their dads https://t.co/u2JA70lKz4

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 8, 2019

the time has come for America’s first cosplay-enthusiast president

― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, April 8, 2019 11:36 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all those alt right guys jack off to anime

Dr Morbius, I believe that quote is from the Morning Joe interview posted here a while ago, right?

When he said that, I thought that was such a non-answer. He has given better answers than that.

the fact that warren's candidacy isn't taking off is an indictment of america

I don’t think that makes the top 100 of things that are indictments of America.

all those alt right guys jack off to anime

Wang and Pete Buttigieg probably the only candidates out of the field who could have possibly cosplayed

Beto probably just read comics.

...and even then it was probably DC/Vertigo stuff.

he's only read two: Watchmen and Batman: Dark Knight Returns

third in the trifecta is Preacher

Sandman, duh.

I'm sure the political discourse in DC comics was a decisive factor in Beto's subsequent career.

or are we back to 'who you'd drink a beer with' again?

Somebody tweet @Beto RE: does he prefer Gaiman, Moore, Ennis, or Grant Morrison?

buttigieg could probably tell you which love & rockets books are best to read first and he's got some others to recommend if you dig that one

i want a president who dresses like the cool kids at my local coffee shop

― Trϵϵship, Monday, April 8, 2019 11:37 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

five panel caps and the rest

― Trϵϵship, Monday, April 8, 2019 11:38 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have some stuff i can loan to warren if she wants to pursue this

― Trϵϵship, Monday, April 8, 2019 11:38 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don’t be such a stick in the mud, dude, free your mind and imagine the prez giving a state of the union in full sailor moon regalia

― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, April 8, 2019 11:40 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

addressing the un in a gundam

pardoning the thanksgiving turkey as sexy scrooge mcduck

― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, April 8, 2019 11:41 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

visiting arlington national cemetery as voldo from soul calibur

serving food in a soup kitchen as steampunk freakazoid

― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, April 8, 2019 11:49 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

God bless you all, I'm laughing so hard

The Atlantic's Kamala Harris proile: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/kamala-harris-2020-campaign/586033/

I'm impressed by the author's mind-reading skills.

I think the point is that she is leaving us w no choice but to read her mind

not an inspiring figure

inspiring schmpiring

she'll be great as unperson suggests at keeping the cogs turning

ok alfred but it would have helped to have a candidate capable of inspiring voters the last time around

she's on Chris Hayes' show as I type, reacting to the immigration news of the day, substituting empathy for policy, I'm afraid.

seems appropriate that the portrait of harris at the top of that atlantic article is out-of-focus

Beto probably just read comics.

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, April 8, 2019 5:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...and even then it was probably DC/Vertigo stuff.

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, April 8, 2019 5:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's only read two: Watchmen and Batman: Dark Knight Returns

― Trϵϵship, Monday, April 8, 2019 5:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

third in the trifecta is Preacher

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, April 8, 2019 5:08 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sandman, duh.

― Simon H., Monday, April 8, 2019 5:08 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

c'mon guys

http://i13.ebayimg.com/04/i/001/24/92/3be3_45.JPG

Beto seems so much more like Eightball than Hate.

nah. Beto reads Hate. Mayor Pete does not read Love And Rockets.

the superman 3 thread derail was better imo

surely the one thing we can all agree on is that bernie is 100% in the tank for will eisner

Warren: Cartoon History of the Universe
Yang: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic TPB

as hoops mod I hereby order you all to stop this bullshit at once

I'll allow it.

buttigieg obviously has back issues of every Mad magazine from 1971 to 1989

wait, wtf born 1982!? dude is at least 15 years younger than I thought. Is he even eligible to run for president? Someone should look into this

the limit is 35 iirc

isn't there a law against someone that young having hair that bad

he'd be inaugurated a day after his 39th birthday, shy of 4 years younger than TR was when McKinley stopped clinging to life and a bit over 4 years younger than JFK at his inauguration, so the youngest president by a lot

whew, thanks guys, it sure would be embarrassing if dems accidentally nominated someone too young to be prez. They'd have to do the primary all over again!

If we elect someone too young they can just have a regent rule until they reach 35

Read that as Reagan rule, which, yeah.

don't think you can necessarily superimpose this over specific candidates in 2020, particularly so early in the race, but it's worth keeping in mind:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/08/upshot/democratic-electorate-twitter-real-life.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

What a useless piece. 'Non-Twitter users are more moderate than Twitter users' - no shit, they're older.

i think the takeaway here is that there's a tendency by people who are extremely online as well as by the media, who make up a significant portion of that extremely online contingent, to overemphasize certain political trends/candidates. as the piece points out, more than half of the Dem electorate has zero opinion or perhaps even awareness of AOC, which if you mistook Twitter for the broader Dem universe (which, duh, you're right, it's not, but which a hell of a lot of media folks seem to act as though it is) would seem inconceivable.

and AOC is just one, relatively harmless example. harmless i mean compared to say, the popularity and potential staying power of Joe Biden, which a lot of folks on the left may be severely underestimating.

yeah i don't think it's age that's the factor (older people vote for donald trump and brexit due to anti immigrant sentiments, that's not moderate). but as evol j says twitter is a self-selecting community that by its very nature contains way more extremely socialist or extremely fascist people than you will encounter irl

I don't think anyone's underestimating him, he leads every poll. There's just a hope that he self-destructs as he has previously.

The most very-online lefty Twitter users know that Obama remains popular, would win in 2020 by a landslide if he could run and that residual glow makes Biden dangerous.

I don't see this landscape where anyone mistakes Twitter for tea leaves that tell a political future.